Friday, March 10, 2006

What day it is today?

I write about anniversary,annual events and national holiday sometimes.
Actually,each day has some like...anniversarys.
It's NOT all day are known.
Some of them are for only specific business circles.
Some of theme are just a funny PLAY ON WORDS!!!

I'm telling you examples...
Today is the day of SUGAR.
10th March,we write 3月 [month] 10日 [day].
3 is pronounced as SA.
10 is pronounced as TO.
Sugar...we say さとう [Sato] in Japanese.
So there you have it!!

And,it's funny. Yesterday is the day of THANK YOU.
9th March,we write 3月 [month] 9日 [day].
3 is pronounced also as SAN.
9 is pronounced as KYU.
So,SANKYU is pronounced as like Thank you!! haha.
I know Th is pronounced as not SA by English native speaker.
That's Japanese English pronunciation!! haha...

It's quite complex how to read numbers in Japanese.
Number's pronunciation change by waht is count...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Japanese Congressman , Taimie Yamaguchi in Portugal, with President Cavaco Silva

okyan said...

Thank you a information.
I didn't know about it!!